<p>An insightful, revealing and heart-warming collection of memories about the joys and trials of growing up with family & friends - Our Ones - in Belfast in the 1960s and 1970s. Janice Donnelly, the author of 'Trying Times' and 'Buying Time', doesn't hold back in expressing the mixed emotions involved in her reflection on a period when her hometown was changing from a city of love and peace to one of chaos and conflict. "By mid to late seventies redevelopment dictated that we move on or stay put. Most of us moved on. The entire community was uprooted and over a period of time the houses were demolished. Many of us scattered to different areas across the city. We were still the same people, the same family but distance meant that the nucleus became fractured and fragmented. We were still connected but no longer in constant touch," she writes. "These are true recollections that take me back to a simpler place and time when the streets of my childhood were alive with large extended families - a vibrant, thriving community - and a great place to grow up."</p>

Our Ones: A Belfast Memoir

Biographies & Memoirs

Donnelly, Janice

Memoirs

David J Publishing

Centred around the arrival in Belfast in 1968 of Benny Brannigan, fresh up from the provinces, 'Buying Time' is the insidiously evocative account of the loves and lives of a group of people whose fates are closely intertwined with his, from Benny's own relationship with the love of his life, Deirdre, to the tragedy which awaits the golden couple Carol and Charlie, to the bitter-sweet story of the big-hearted Sammy and his devotion to the married Liz whom he met while out dancing one night and could never forget. Among a pack of sympathetic and intriguing characters, the streets of Belfast play the greatest role of all as the sometimes joyous, sometimes teeming, sometimes troubled backdrop to the dreams and heartbreaks of ordinary, yet often quietly heroic, lives. 'Buying Time' has a rhythm, a wisdom and a telling accuracy which will haunt you for weeks, and maybe for years, to come.

Buying Time

Romance

Contemporary

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Literature & Fiction

British & Irish

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